"The Elephantine papyri - written as some of……" — Simon Schama
"The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things."
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57 Quotes by Simon Schama
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
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Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
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It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It…
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any…
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
— John Quincy Adams
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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood…
— Joe Barton
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit…
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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
— William Blake
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to…
— Elayne Boosler
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being…
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